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January 2011

January 10, 2011
Several posts around the blogosphere have something to do with encountering the alien - whether...
January 10, 2011
In an off-topic comment on a recent post, I was asked what I think about...
January 10, 2011
Recent articles in Inside Higher Education - focused on the field of modern languages - discuss the...
January 10, 2011
A couple of posts about the Tower of Babel story have appeared in the blogosphere...
January 10, 2011
Daniel McClellan has a post on the Hebrew plural Elohim, in which he explains that...
January 09, 2011
Ari's blog has some awesome links. He spotted Mark Goodacre's latest NT Pod, on the...
January 09, 2011
David Fitzgerald kindly let me know that he has posted a response to my critical...
January 09, 2011
Gnosticism has turned up regularly in science fiction - The Matrix and The Golden Compass...
January 07, 2011
"[R]reading the text as if it was as plain as the nose on your face...
January 07, 2011
Dennis Venema tells part one of a tale of three creationists.P. Z. Myers explains how...
January 07, 2011
Here are some links related to evolution, and the interaction of biology and theology, from...
January 07, 2011
There was a nice brief article in the Indianapolis Star yesterday about Nichelle Nichols, who...
January 06, 2011
As mentioned previously, Nick Norelli posted a very detailed and, from my perspective, very fair...
January 05, 2011
I became aware of David Fitzgerald's book Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never...
January 05, 2011
Ari explains why absence of evidence for historicity is not the same thing as evidence...
January 05, 2011
I was reminded recently of the story "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov. It explores...
January 05, 2011
Does anyone have any thoughts, or recommendations of publications to read, on the subject of...
January 05, 2011
I had been hoping to listen to the interview with Richard Carrier on the blog...
January 04, 2011
My colleague Brad Matthies shared a link to a bit of library science fiction in...
January 04, 2011
Clayboy has a post on how what we already think determines how we interpret new...
January 04, 2011
Several bits of Star Wars related humor have popped up on blogs today. First, Aaron...
January 04, 2011
in the book which was just released, In the Light of Evolution: Essays from the Laboratory and...
January 03, 2011
I often start my one-semester course on the Bible with the question "What is the...
January 03, 2011
I recently watched the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans.It doesn't attempt rigid fidelity...
January 03, 2011
Steve Martin has posted what is likely to be his last post on his blog...
January 03, 2011
Like a Child discusses a heartwrenching year of disentangling herself from fundamentalism.Terri discusses agnosticism and...
January 02, 2011
Rod of Alexandria points out that there are (at least) two NT Wrongs. In fact,...
January 01, 2011
A third method of ranking biblioblogs was introduced recently by Daniel McClellan, who decided to...
January 01, 2011
Diglotting has begun reviewing Michael Licona's The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach. I too have...
January 01, 2011
In a comment on a recent post, Stephen Douglas asked how one contacts NT Wrong,...
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